Hi, I'm Jessica Beck from IELTS Energy TV and the podcast, IELTS Energy, now with over
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So today, I wanted to focus on vocabulary about music because I'm excited.
I get to see a live show tonight.
Somebody you probably never heard of, his name is Iggy Pop, and he is a rock legend
and an icon of classic rock and punk rock.
So I am going to be teaching you vocabulary that I use when I discuss music because I
love music, and this is vocabulary that native speakers use when discussing this topic and
probably vocabulary that other students don't know.
In fact, I've even seen question in speaking part one about music, and they are simple
questions to me, to my mind, but to students, they don't even know this vocabulary like
live show, live concert.
So guys, please take notes today.
Write down these words.
They are very specific for this topic and this topic does come up on the speaking exam,
on the writing exam, listening exam, reading exam.
I have seen music all over the place on the IELTS test.
So this vocabulary is important.
Plus, it is fun.
I want to teach you a little bit about music today and maybe give you something fun to
study.
All right.
So I am going to be glancing down at my notes periodically because I want to make sure I
teach you all the important words.
First, and this is a word that I mentioned in the video about books and stories.
Genre.
So genre is the type of music.
I'm going to be getting into genre, specific genres in a moment.
Okay.
Let's go over the vocabulary first.
So genre.
Then album.
This isn't something that people talk about a lot because people just download singles.
Yeah, singles are just one song.
People just download singles.
But artists do still come out with complete albums, anywhere from 10 to 16 songs, usually.
That is an album.
You can also a record.
All right.
Old-school records were on vinyl.
You can still go to record shops today and search through the vinyl, something that's
a really fun hobby for a lot of people, a lot of my friends.
Another vocabulary word, gig.
All right.
If someone has a gig, it means they have a paying show.
Somebody is going to pay them to play music.
So that's a gig.
You can also say I'm going to my friends' gig tonight, or I'm going to this folk-rock
gig tonight.
Okay.
It's the same as show where someone gets paid to perform music.
One reason I'm so excited about tonight is I haven't been to a live show or a live gig
in a long time.
Too long, and the energy you get from a live show is incredible.
You can't find it anywhere else.
So live gig, live show, live concert, all of those things mean the same thing.
Gig and show are usually in smaller venues.
A venue is the place where you watch the music.
So shows and gigs are in smaller venues than concerts.
Concerns are sometimes in huge venues like stadiums.
All right.
If you want to describe a song that gets stuck in your head, you can say it's catchy, like
it catches your attention.
You notice it, all right, so the song is catchy.
Something about it makes you notice it.
And this can be annoying.
Sometimes a song gets stuck in your head.
Okay.
I hate it when commercial jingles, a jingle is the song in an advertisement.
I hate it when advertising jingles get stuck in my head and sometimes all day just running
through, running around my head.
Da-da-da-da-da, I'm loving it, or whatever jingle gets stuck in your head.
Okay.
You can also call that an earworm.
I don't use that term but other native speakers do.
So guys, I'm going through lots of vocabulary pretty quickly.
I really hope you're pausing and taking notes on this stuff.
Please.
All right.
Let's continue.
Okay.
Let's get into the genres.
This is the very specific vocabulary that is interesting, that will help you impress
the examiner, help you stand out from other students, and help you develop this culture
of thinking about the culture that you are studying for.
Okay.
This is important stuff, you guys.
Okay, first term.
Jam band.
So jam is when musicians play together without following a very specific plan like they can
kind of play what they want sometimes.
And sometimes the songs are very long.
If you would like to know more about jam bands, please Google the Grateful Dead.
All right, they are the most classic jam band example.
Okay.
Continuing from there, classic rock.
No, okay, this is important.
Classic, it's not classical.
Classical music is like Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart.
That's classical.
Different.
Classic rock is rock and role from the '60s and the '70s.
I love that music, guys.
So best examples that I want you guys to research and listen to of classic rock, Led Zeppelin.
Find it, listen to it.
Understand what classic rock means, and I hope you like it.
Then you could learn the lyrics.
Lyrics are the words to the song.
You could learn the lyrics.
Great way of getting vocabulary.
I also want you to listen to Led Zeppelin because the vocalist, okay, that's the singer.
Instead of saying singer, say the vocalist.
The vocalist is one of the best vocalists of all time.
All right.
So Led Zeppelin.
Hip Hop, I know a lot of younger people from other countries are into Hip Hop these days.
Guys, let me give you a better example than maybe the stuff you are listening to.
A little bit older, but they still make music, A Tribe Called Quest.
So just a little bit to open your mind.
Soul.
Soul music, also music from the '60s and '70s.
Best example, Al Green.
Electronica.
Electronica is like dance music, techno, but we say electronica.
My favorite electronica is house music and drum and base.
All right.
So again, I'm giving you hopefully lots of new information.
I really hope you research some of this stuff.
It will improve your testing skills and your vocabulary.
The more you read, the more you know, the better prepared you are.
All right.
Punk music.
I also used to be a bit punk rock fan.
Look up the Ramones.
All right.
Bluegrass.
I can almost promise that you've never heard of Bluegrass.
Best example of Bluegrass you could look up is Earl Scruggs.
All right.
I'm also getting into Bluegrass these days, wasn't always into Bluegrass, but I really
love it as background music.
Jazz.
There're billion different kinds of Jazz.
My favorite Jazz musician is Brad Mehldau.
He does some like more contemporary stuff with even some rock songs that he interprets.
So very interesting music.
Very impressive to the examiner if you can discuss that.
Last example, I know this is a long video for us at IELTS Energy TV.
Last example, my favorite genre, Grunge.
Grunge music is rock music from the Seattle area in the early 1990s.
Best examples Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.
All right.
You can see I love music, all genres of music.
I really hope I'm inspiring you to get a little bit more into the culture of which you are
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Thanks for sticking with me in this long music video.
Have a wonderful day.